Quicksliver Great Barrier Reef Tour

9.15am Check in at the Quicksilver reservations Counter to receive your boarding pass

9.30am Boarding: Board the vessel and enjoy the complimentary morning tea/coffee on boarding. For your safety, hot drinks are not served once the vessel is underway. Passengers are required to be onboard the vessel 15minutes before departure(10am).

10am Departure: Choose to sit in the air-conditional cabins or on the outside decks as our Wavepiercer departs the Port Douglass Marina for the Quter Barrier Reef.

10.30am Presentation: A Marine biology presentation is shown on the vessel monitors 30 minutes after departure. A snorkelling demonstration will follow. If you’re participating in scuba diving or helmet diving, you’ll have a 30 minute briefing with the dive crew in readiness for your dive.

11.30am – Outer Barrier Reef: Swim and snorkel from the activity platform. Underwater observatory open for coral and fish viewing. Semi-subs depart every fifteen minutes from the rear of the platform. Pre-booked guided snorkel, scuba and helmet diving, and scenic helicopter flights commence as scheduled. Fish feed presentation conducted in the snorkel area.

12-1.30pm – Lunch Served: Lunch [included in the fare] is served. Enjoy a hot and cold tropical buffet, containing fresh prawns, pastas, meats, salads and fruit. There are full bar facilities available where you can purchase drinks.

After Lunch: Time for more reef activities or just relax and take in the view!

3.00 pm – Return: Depart Agincourt Reef for Port Douglas. Chat with the marine biologists, enjoy the reef video and even the photographers photos of the day on the homeward journey.

4.30pm – Arrival at Port Douglas Marina

Certified diving at the edge of Australia’s continental shelf is simply spectacular. Certified divers can enjoy up to two spectacular dives lasting approximately 40 minutes – the ultimate experience at Agincourt Reef where visibility is excellent and the variety of marine life is exceptional. Our professional instructors accompany all dives at no extra charge, ensuring maximum experiences, safety and enjoyment.

Certified diving at the edge of Australia’s continental shelf is simply spectacular. Certified divers can enjoy up to two spectacular dives lasting approximately 40 minutes – the ultimate experience at Agincourt Reef where visibility is excellent and the variety of marine life is exceptional. Our professional instructors accompany all dives at no extra charge, ensuring maximum experiences, safety and enjoyment.

Introductory diving is suitable for beginners and first time divers – it couldn’t be easier at Quicksilver’s Outer Reef activity platform. It’s fun and easy! And there is still plenty of time to enjoy all other activities on board with family and friends!

No experience is necessary to experience this amazing underwater world with an introductory scuba dive. If you’ve never dived before, and would like to, Quicksilver offers introductory dives with a highly qualified dive instructor. The only requirements are that you are 12 years or over, pass the on-board medical questionnaire and participate in our 30 minute dive brief.

All equipment, including wetsuits and prescription masks (if required) are included. Multi-lingual diving instructors are available on request. All of our professional dive instructors are PADI qualified.

Oceanwalker or “helmet diving” is a unique and fun way to experience the underwater world of the reef up close and personal. Breathing fresh air delivered from the surface into your helmet, you will walk underwater on a reef platform – you can even wear your glasses if you wish!

Oceanwalker is suitable for non-swimmers and persons aged over 12 years. After a short briefing and subject to medical conditions, you will be walking amongst the reef fish and corals.

• Experience the feeling of diving but instead you’ll be wearing a helmet and breathing normally.
• No swimming involved – just walk down the ramp steps to the platform.
• You can wear your glasses and keep your hair dry!
• 10 minute briefing and safety talk before starting your helmet dive.
• Maximum of 6 “Oceanwalkers” at a time accompanied by 2 dive instructors.
• All equipment provided.
• Souvenir certificate on completion of your helmet dive.

See the expanse of the Great Barrier Reef from the air with a Nautilus Aviation Helicopter scenic flight. Departing from a heli-pad moored at Agincourt Reef, close to the Quicksilver platform, a 10 minute scenic helicopter flight is a must to see a different and spectacular perspective of the jewel-like ribbon reefs. Experience the scope and majesty of the Outer Reef.

Taking you up to 150 metres [500ft], see opal blue reef lagoons, vast coral formations, marine life and the fantastic patterns that are at the reef’s outer edge. Be sure to bring your camera along to capture your own postcard-perfect photos.

Helicopter flights can be booked onboard but to avoid disappointment as spaces are limited, we recommend you enquire at booking.

Duration: 30-40 minutes
This tour is designed for the novice or beginner snorkeller.
The tour provides an introduction to the marine environment.
It is tailored for families, and those wanting an educational experience.
Tours leave and return from the protected snorkelling platform. As a safety precaution, the marine biologist tows a safety float and a whist

Duration: 45 – 60+ minutes
This tour is more about exploring, and the marine biologists encourage and teach passengers how to duck dive (if they would like to learn).
Tours generally leave from the platform, but sometimes may involve a drop-off from a small tender, so participants can cover a greater distance, and have the chance to “drift with the current”, before returning to the platform.
Distance travelled can be up to several hundred metres.
Duration of up to 60+ minutes depends on conditions and passenger experience.
To be eligible for an Advanced Snorkel Tour guests must be able to swim unassisted with no flotation device for the duration of the tour.